I have a drive in my NAS that's reporting a spin-up time of 9.4 years. Time to replace?
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Damn! I'd replace it and then put that old drive on display!

-Scuz


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Re: 9.4 years
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Oct 10 2024 04:25 pm

I have a drive in my NAS that's reporting a spin-up time of 9.4 years. Time to replace?

If it is a NAS for home ussage and you have a backup policy in place, I say you keep the sucker as long as it does not throw actual errors (stuff like UREs and the like).


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